The Backrooms: Places Without Purpose

Welcome to this video analysis of The Backrooms, a captivating horror phenomenon that has taken the internet by storm. Have you ever experienced that glitch in a video game where you suddenly fall through the ground, descending into an endless void? Imagine if this glitch happened in real life, where reality crumbles around you, and everything you know is called into question. Welcome to The Backrooms.
The concept of The Backrooms originated from a single 4Chan post on May 12th, 2019, accompanied by a famous image. The post described The Backrooms as a place with repeating corridors and hallways, resembling an old office space with mono-yellow wallpaper and buzzing fluorescent lighting. It was claimed to stretch over 600 million square miles, a vast space one could unintentionally "noclip" into from reality, akin to passing through physical barriers in video games.
This unique idea of being trapped in an otherworldly place captured the attention of internet users, leading to the development of extended lore and the creation of numerous fan-made levels and creatures within The Backrooms. It birthed an entire sub-genre in internet horror, reminiscent of the SCP Foundation. However, in this video, we will delve into the core concept of The Backrooms: the existence of an infinite plane of existence that defies our understanding of reality.
From a young age, we learn that most things in the world serve a purpose. Objects, buildings, and structures have reasons for their existence, implying the existence of people behind them. Even abandoned buildings once had a purpose, and their remnants remind us of the life they once contained. However, The Backrooms shatters this notion. It is a place that never had a purpose, never lived, and never died like abandoned buildings do. It is a timeless void, devoid of a past or future, existing only in an eternal present.
Perhaps the fault lies with us, as humans, unable to comprehend the purpose of The Backrooms. It is reminiscent of a beef cow that cannot fathom its purpose within the machine of meat production. We, like cows, may not possess the capacity to understand the grander purpose behind The Backrooms. This realization is even more unsettling than the idea of purposelessness itself.
The Backrooms feels like a creation born out of HR Giger's nightmares, where machinery serves a purpose beyond our comprehension. It is a purpose that exists, but one we cannot grasp. Calling The Backrooms a purposeless mess of mono-yellow wallpaper is akin to claiming that Giger's art lacks purpose. It has a purpose, but it eludes our understanding, which adds to its eerie nature.
The Backrooms is a place built but not designed, a corpse that stands but has never lived. It resembles human structures but feels alien and unlivable. It shares similarities with liminal spaces, lifeless areas of transition that evoke nostalgia, unease, and a sense of the unfamiliar. Just as liminal spaces exist in contexts we rarely imagine, The Backrooms has forgotten humanity while humanity has not forgotten it.
The Backrooms raises unanswerable questions. The very concept of an infinite office space devoid of people to fund, design, and build it challenges our understanding of existence. It defies the logic that everything requires a creator. In the realm of non-places, like hotels or bus stops, where identity is disregarded for mass utility, The Backrooms stands as the epitome of uncanniness. It is a place that was never designed for humans but rather for everything that is not human.
The fear instilled by The Backrooms lies not in the presence of a monster but in its absence. It is scarier to encounter nothingness, to have your fears go unjustified, than to face a tangible threat. The Complex, a Backrooms-inspired
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  • @Cresendex
    @Cresendex Жыл бұрын

    The Backrooms are such an interesting concept, subscribe if you'd like to.

  • @CUBETechie

    @CUBETechie

    11 ай бұрын

    I like them but does Liminal Space are mostly USA oriented or in other place's? And how much does nostalgia is involed?

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    11 ай бұрын

    @@CUBETechie That's a really interesting question, no it does not appear that liminal spaces are universal. I found a video that depicts liminal spaces as experienced from the perspective of someone growing up in Russia, and they were far different than the typically western liminal spaces we all know. As for nostalgia, I'd say that it plays a large part in a liminal space, but it doesn't have to be there for an image to feel "liminal."

  • @CUBETechie

    @CUBETechie

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Cresendex suburbs where a very foreign concept for me. I had some type of suburbs in my neighbourhood but it was different

  • @fatcat22able

    @fatcat22able

    11 ай бұрын

    Just subbed! Please continue to make awesome videos :D

  • @Souliiiii
    @Souliiiii Жыл бұрын

    modern Backrooms seems to be in an ever intensifying battle to one-up itself; levels don't feel "liminal" anymore, but instead seem to be made just to try to be weirder or scarier than the levels made before, and this makes me feel as if they have lost their initial goal entirely. It is as if early Backrooms (before its explosive popularization) was a smash hit movie, and modern Backrooms (post-explosion) is an untrue, straight-to-DVD sequel made purely for money. Almost tragic, really.

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    Жыл бұрын

    I have never seen a more precise analogy of the evolution of The Backrooms

  • @Dilligff

    @Dilligff

    Жыл бұрын

    What initially attracted me to the backrooms was how closely they mimic my actual dreams. Massive conglomerations of real world places twisted by my subconscious into familiar, yet alien, spaces with impossible dimensions that I feel almost compelled to explore. They were/are often sparsely populated, meaning seldom empty but never crowded. Seeing these types of spaces being physically visualized is like peering into the minds of others with similar dreams. Unfortunately some of the more recent backrooms media really want to push the 'video game' aesthetic into that concept by adding 'survival' elements and an ever increasing compendium of 'entities' which the initial idea only alluded to but never specified.

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Dilligff I love how entities were only ever alluded to, they were never right in front of you, but you knew they might be around. It's like going into an abandoned building everyone tells you is haunted. You don't really know for sure, but the fact that there could be is even scarier than actually knowing.

  • @wonderofu230

    @wonderofu230

    11 ай бұрын

    People like you sound arrogant. While the backrooms has goofy shit, it still pertains to its original foundation and that’s the mystery behind its origins and purpose of its existence. If you were truly a fan of the old concept, then you would’ve acknowledged that it wasn’t the idea of isolation that got you, but rather the idea of a foreign reality mimicking human culture. In general the backrooms was meant to serve psychological horror by playing with the human mind. You’re acting as if the nostalgia and false sense of security from certain levels are nonsensical even though it ties in to our nature. We seek comfort in what we recognize and call home

  • @Maverick_2K4

    @Maverick_2K4

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Cresendex or the lack thereof.

  • @gerarddip
    @gerarddip11 ай бұрын

    FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT Overcomplicating the simple, compact and elegant concept of the original backrooms has only added bloat and muddied the simplicity.

  • @mc_cafee7817
    @mc_cafee7817 Жыл бұрын

    I can't believe your youtube channel doesn't have more fame with such marvelous videos

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks! I hope to make them even better in the future.

  • @TraiTruitt-_-

    @TraiTruitt-_-

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly, he explains better than some people 💀💯

  • @slush8668

    @slush8668

    11 ай бұрын

    i was gonna comment that lol

  • @_end3rguy_
    @_end3rguy_11 ай бұрын

    liminal spaces and the backrooms are nostalgic *because* we dont understand the purpose. when we were young we didn't understand the function of anything and everything was more dreamlike and now that we are able to rationalize everything, we get more used to this stuff. but the backrooms has no purpose, thus bringing back that feeling we had at a very young age

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    11 ай бұрын

    Interesting point, never thought of it that way.

  • @Randomjackass135

    @Randomjackass135

    9 ай бұрын

    Joke’s on you! I started smoking weed in adolescence and now due to my arrested development I can recover that sense of awe for 30 minutes a day in the form of acute anxiety

  • @_end3rguy_

    @_end3rguy_

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Randomjackass135 most normal person in the school bathroom:

  • @Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman

    @Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@_end3rguy_😂

  • @sansystudios9904
    @sansystudios9904 Жыл бұрын

    God, you know someone is cooking when they make horror nostalgic... the backrooms is definitely one of those things that is so creepy to think about, and for someone with monophobia such as myself, it terrifies me. The thought of being instantaneously ripped away from everything and everyone I know and love for no discernable reason is absolutely mortifying and I can't help but be fascinated by it

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    Жыл бұрын

    Honestly, it's the opposite for me, I like doing things solo most of the time, while it would be scary to be ripped away from everything you know, sometimes you might want to take a break from reality, and I think you can seek some comfort in The Backrooms looking at it that way.

  • @sansystudios9904

    @sansystudios9904

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Cresendex maybe if it were for like, a set amount of time, but if the time I spend in there were to be indefinite, then I would definitely go insane

  • @sadfriedgamer6648
    @sadfriedgamer664811 ай бұрын

    The Backrooms are so calming, and at the same time unnerving. I had a really weird dream after not sleeping for a day and a half due to travel, and finding a hotel room, And from there I dreamed I was still in reality. While I was asleep, i was still going to school, still doing housework, still doing everything anyone regular would be doing. I was convinced I was in a real reality, when all was but in my mind. The really cool part is, I was walking home on a sunset, all alone, in a empty grass field. I do not know how I got there, when I got there, the movements of the false celestial objects in the sky, but I fell, braced for impact, and it never came. I held my eyes waiting for something to happen, yet nothing did. I woke up in the Backrooms, the same placed I had wished to see for a long time after investing my time into learning about liminal spaces. Instead of excitement, I felt fear. I didn't think the Backrooms was real, nor have i considered the Backrooms to even exist outside of reality, and there I was, laying down, facing white lights buzzing, yellow walls with an unfamiliar design, and random segments of wall that seemed to serve no purpose. For me, time felt like 1 second a second, and days felt like actual days. I explored, seen many dark corners, many interesting places, yet no end in sight. I feared for the presence of something, but what scared me more was the presence of nothing. The emptiness and random places of seemingly random objects with no actual purpose. For the last day I experienced the backrooms, I found the poolrooms. it felt so real, I could hear the sloshing of the clear water, the smell of chlorine, the feel of the smooth, hard surface of the tiles, and rarely seen windows that reveal a violet sunset in the distance, with clouds spanning out for infinity, with no ground in sight. I woke up after i touched a segment of wall that looked slightly faded, and worn. I was frightened. After that I ate a subway sandwich.

  • @0mensfault_

    @0mensfault_

    8 ай бұрын

    i really wish i could have a dream like that. it captures what the backrooms are about more than the majority of the internet does, and also seems like a fun and meaningful experience that--even if i'd shit my pants--i would love to have. and eating a subway sandwich after such experience is the best thing you did.

  • @PipeBombPaladin

    @PipeBombPaladin

    Ай бұрын

    You should write books homie.

  • @baconhairmaster
    @baconhairmaster Жыл бұрын

    This man is going places this is one of the best experiences watching a backrooms video it was almost like the backrooms it’s self familiar but unsettling

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed!

  • @mcfatty7628
    @mcfatty7628 Жыл бұрын

    underrated channel tbh

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks! I hope to improve even more in the coming months.

  • @normified
    @normified11 ай бұрын

    I hate comments stating "Oh entities suck, this has gone to shit, blah blah". People have been shitting on entities since Backrooms writing was only (primarily shared) on Reddit in 2019 and people complained that level 4 "wasn't confirmed" and there was only levels 1-3 that were "accepted". It's a COMMUNITY of writing, an archive for you to use, not a 100%-connected universe that NEEDS to be followed to a T. Use whatever elements you want in your writing, if you don't want entities or something else, fuck em'. I ran a Backrooms TTRPG group with a few lads for about two years and we rarely used entities and barely even touched many levels that weren't written up by our favorite authors, and fixed the ones we didn't like to fit our fun little roleplaying game to make our own story. It's funny, because a VAST majority of the people who are shitting on stuff not being "liminal" (you can only do that singular trope for so long before it becomes repetitive) have never even participated in the community whatsoever and frequently act like they can do better than the authors who have been writing there for multiple years now. The community has been publicized heavily and now people are just shitting on it for the sake of hopping on the bandwagon. Some might call me salty or a gatekeeper, but if you're gonna argue and can't back up your claims, or simply do not have the depth of knowledge to have a proper conversation about the many facets to the Backrooms genre, disrespectfully - your opinions are beyond invalid. Nice video by the way, just thought I'd leave my thoughts floating about in your comments.

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    11 ай бұрын

    A very intriguing point, and one that I'm glad you brought up. Because, yeah, I don't know any authors of levels, and I am not active in any Backrooms wiki but let's be honest here, the trope of "scary monster in spooky place" has been done to death in both professional and amateur horror media, while I do agree that authors should have creative liberty, I think The Backrooms as a concept had the potential of subversing this monotony. But ever since The Backrooms got mass media attention, the impact of a couple of very well-written, worked-on levels started fading as more and more people devised increasingly complex levels and even sub-levels. The entities in my opinion take the very unique concept of a spooky place that never got a justification for being spooky and slammed it to the ground. The different levels while all unique in their own right, honestly just clutter things for me. I feel that the majority of people who have hopped on The Backrooms bandwagon want to turn it into yet another cliche "Scary monster in scary place" but I don't want that and the people who rightly complain that The Backrooms have lost all meaning don't want that either. I don't want The Backrooms to turn into an SCP clone, that is already a fleshed-out existing idea, The Backrooms are their own thing and should be focused more on their roots than what the vast majority of people who watch horror want. (The exact same thing that has been done over and over.) Although I am very glad you commented, it means I can actually have an informational argument with a like-minded person, and I am very curious to see what you have so say.

  • @thebuilder5271

    @thebuilder5271

    11 ай бұрын

    I think it’s fine if the mainstream backrooms community wants monsters, but people should also be able to point out how the feeling changes drastically when there are other things in the backrooms with you. I know the backrooms have turned into something directed more towards children which is totally fine, but I wish there was more than just one backrooms community branching from the original idea. The main backrooms community has turned into a copy or continuation of SCP, and while I think it is cool to connect the two community projects, I also want places to discuss the backrooms in different ways than just that.

  • @SkbidiToiletFan
    @SkbidiToiletFan11 ай бұрын

    The Backrooms, Is Something I LOVE Because It's Creepy But In a Way.. Its also Relaxing and Peaceful (or at least for me)

  • @cad291
    @cad29127 күн бұрын

    I love the way you articulate your words. I’m currently trying to show as many people who I think might like your content as possible. Keep up the good work.

  • @bug-dr1ml
    @bug-dr1ml5 ай бұрын

    your videos are actually unbelievable. your videos, having nothing to do with self improvement, have single-handedly given me more motivation than any substance and given me a better attention span. you especially, and a handful of other creators have helped me a lot with motivation and have helped me only use social media for educational purposes. keep making videos

  • @Jazz_34
    @Jazz_34 Жыл бұрын

    Wow that was pretty good.

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm glad you enjoyed. :)

  • @AbandonedVoid
    @AbandonedVoid4 ай бұрын

    "Is fear better justified or unjustified?" Everyone with PTSD: "Justified."

  • @sirtalkalotdoolittle
    @sirtalkalotdoolittle11 ай бұрын

    Your videos are enjoyable, but the Backrooms phenomenon escapes me totally. Honestly, your videos helped me realize this.

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    11 ай бұрын

    The modern imagining escapes me, the visceral idea does not. Just being trapped in a place like this is a type of horror I haven't yet experienced.

  • @cadencornobi5796
    @cadencornobi579611 ай бұрын

    I am really happy I discovered your channel. This content is fascinating to me. Also, this channel is so high quality I was surprised when I was that you only have a few thousand subs. I think your channel is going to blow up.

  • @Cereall
    @Cereall11 ай бұрын

    absolutely amazing video, you are going to become very popular in the future. the backrooms is my favorite internet horror and this is one of the best videos on it. you've earned a subscriber

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    11 ай бұрын

    Thanks! Same here, I love the concept, and even the levels to an extent.

  • @robotomo4249
    @robotomo424911 ай бұрын

    An amazing video from a criminally underrated channel! The way you word things resonate with me so much! And the song at the end, perfectly fitting for that ending section paired with the backrooms footage! This is a longer comment so enjoy the read if you're willing! Liminal spaces are something special to me, never have I had so many conflicting emotions while looking at a place that I've never even been to. Although many spaces speak to me on a level in which I cannot understand, grasslands are probably my favourite liminal space for how they make me feel and I think the 'Bliss' wallpaper initiated it. There's just something so freeing and uplifting about grasslands to me, sure there are also the feelings of lonliness and fear, however the positive thoughts outweigh the negative ones by a landslide. The thought of being near no one, having no connection to modern society. It is just you, the rolling grass hills, the blue sky with a few scattered clouds and the soft wind, blowing your hair and the grass simultaneously, effectively making you one with this land. Despite you finally feeling like you have found a place where you belong, that typical liminal feeling reveals itself in the form of a familiar looking hill, or it could be brought upon the way the unnaturally healthy and soft grass brushed up upon your leg. Or maybe you'll see something completely out of place in the distance, a white, plastic garden chair perhaps? Sadly, the backrooms has had every last drop squeezed out of it for content. On random occasions however, you do find that one image of the backrooms that reignites your love for them, only then do you have a slither of hope that there is still a part of the backrooms that is untouched.

  • @spin7765
    @spin776511 ай бұрын

    your channel will blow up, I'm calling it. Great video!

  • @FrankV10
    @FrankV1011 ай бұрын

    Wow truly awesome video and really nailed what the backrooms is all about. This is the best history/explanation I’ve seen anywhere on KZread. Keep it up mate

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    11 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the support! More videos coming in the future, if you liked this one you might want to stick around!

  • @owmations
    @owmations11 ай бұрын

    You are the best KZreadr and deserve more. It's so well done. This really let's me relaxe and think about my past and me being in these spaces.

  • @bogdan19992
    @bogdan1999210 ай бұрын

    Had an experience similar to this in the recent past. Where I live, there is this lake where ... when I was a child, many people went there, to fish, to swim, soak in the sun and so on. Funny thing is, that lake was not meant for such a thing in the first place. As time passed, the infrastructure of the city grew, catching up to that lake, most of the living quarters and businesses dumping waste in it, rendering it obsolete. No one goes there anymore. But I still remember that lake. It is the place I learned to swim after all. One day I made the choice to ride my bike along side that lake. It was ... odd to say the least. Same lake, same roads but my mind could not comprehend that the place was abandoned. Took a rest stop, took off my shoes, walked bare foot. On those paths, even crouched to touch it with my hands, to feel that place once more. Wanted to take another swim in the lake but I could not, the water was compromised as is. I arrived at the spot where we improvised a trampoline, so we can dive. Still saw it, submerged in the toxic water. While sad, I felt at peace, knowing that this place was here before me and will still exist after I'm dirt. Glad in having the opportunity to make some memories there. In a way, that day, I no clipped into the past. Reminding me that ... the world I hold near and dear to my heart ... no longer exists. The place is still there ... but not how I remember it.

  • @kikosplendito
    @kikosplendito11 ай бұрын

    Keep making videos dude I love existential video essays. You have my subscribe.

  • @happyegg747
    @happyegg74711 ай бұрын

    Absolute Masterpiece, I almost shed tear because of your powerful words

  • @Failure-kd5mn
    @Failure-kd5mn Жыл бұрын

    7:41 HA jokes on you I'm sleeping in a car

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    Жыл бұрын

    Damn, guess you gotta dislike now

  • @gvn1111
    @gvn111110 ай бұрын

    OMG, this video made me look at the backrooms from totally other perspective! This channel deserves way more views. Thanks for the video!!

  • @cranker7777
    @cranker777711 ай бұрын

    Amazing video, I cant even word how much your video is so well made and beautifully worded! The psychology behind the backrooms and ideas and concepts it brings is just amazing. Thank you for sharing all of these idea's and concepts we've all had in the back of our mind.

  • @jzxmoweey
    @jzxmoweey11 ай бұрын

    Loving your channel, very underrated.

  • @harukomeyers7073
    @harukomeyers7073 Жыл бұрын

    Great video. Subbed!

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    Жыл бұрын

    Appreciate it! x2

  • @ponod
    @ponod Жыл бұрын

    This is some good ass content for a channel with 66 subscribers! You earned my sub btw

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, hope to be even better in the future!

  • @Coco-bl8zg
    @Coco-bl8zgАй бұрын

    This is why I explore abandoned buildings. I'm going to one right now in fact just to chill and smoke a blunt while watching spooky videos on my phone. Then I'm going to sing since it's so echoey in there so it's perfect for that. Liminal spaces put me at peace and helps me focus on the present. Even if it's at night. I'm not scared or unsettled at all, in fact the opposite. I'm sure it's cause I'm mentally ill. Perfect example of comforting the disturbed but disturbing the comfortable.

  • @Roxtox23
    @Roxtox2311 ай бұрын

    very underrated for the content and explanation the video has in it very well made good vid

  • @goofygoober7050
    @goofygoober705011 ай бұрын

    How did you push out so many banger videos in the span of a month

  • @PedroBellora
    @PedroBellora11 ай бұрын

    Superb video, thank you so much for your work!!

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    8 ай бұрын

    Gracias! Tus videos también son geniales

  • @PedroBellora

    @PedroBellora

    8 ай бұрын

    @@Cresendex Hey, ¡qué sorpresa tu mensaje! Es realmente un gustazo estar en contacto. Los backrooms y los espacios liminales me provocan una extraña fascinación y me encantó tu video. ¡Gracias nuevamente y te mando un abrazo!

  • @user-by9js9hz6r
    @user-by9js9hz6r11 ай бұрын

    this is probably one of, if not the best backrooms explanation

  • @Poffupaima
    @Poffupaima9 ай бұрын

    I adore liminality and videos about stuff like this. Fabulous video ♥️

  • @Snowist
    @Snowist11 ай бұрын

    Dude you're SUPER underrated

  • @MarvinHartmann452
    @MarvinHartmann45210 ай бұрын

    I don't understand the fear of these places. It's just empty.

  • @morpheuslunae4196
    @morpheuslunae41964 ай бұрын

    I find the backrooms and liminal spaces very interesting and I feel almost at home in them. Although most of my fascination stems from a short story collection about dreams by Michael Ende (who also wrote The Neverending Story) in which a being wanders endless rooms and doesn't remember anything. It just wanders. I find it a bit sad this story never gets mentioned in these videos because it would add a lot as an early piece about liminal spaces or, actually, a backroom-esque maze.

  • @mellowanimations7237
    @mellowanimations7237 Жыл бұрын

    I've retraced my memory for basically the entire video trying to remember the name of the song @ 3:39, but I just can't so I'm folding and deciding to ask. What's it's name? I've heard it before. Also: more than excellent video! I could not agree more or word "I more like the raw concept of the backrooms" better. Amazing! You've a subscriber, sir! Keep up the topic of Liminal spaces and the Backrooms and I'll 100% be sticking around. God I love this side of the internet.

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    Жыл бұрын

    The song is "We don't have many days" by the Caretaker, I always put what the background music is on screen for a few seconds. Also, thank you! I got some great videos coming soon, hope you stick around!

  • @RobbYarber

    @RobbYarber

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Cresendex What's the name of the song that begins playing at 1:56? In the video you say it's Libet's Delay but it sounds like a totally different song. Edit: I found the correct name of the song in your newest video: it's called Six Forty Seven.

  • @Windyumbreon
    @Windyumbreon Жыл бұрын

    damn what !! these videos r so intuitive ?? genuinely a fun watch, you'll b soaring w the clouds soon enough :D !!

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm glad you enjoyed! I'm glad other people enjoy what I make, the main reason I started this channel is to make videos I am proud of, and if I can also translate some entertainment onto others then that's a bonus! :D

  • @Windyumbreon

    @Windyumbreon

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Cresendex GO FOR IT !! i can't wait to see more, definitely fun to listen to while drawing if not watching, too!!!

  • @kwentongpotchero6750
    @kwentongpotchero675011 ай бұрын

    Props for cresendex for being friendly.Underrated channel

  • @Whos__winter
    @Whos__winter Жыл бұрын

    SO UNDERRATED

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm glad you think that!

  • @slush8668
    @slush866811 ай бұрын

    absolutely great content!

  • @therani9600
    @therani960011 ай бұрын

    I want to recommend playing a flash game series named "submachine", if you can find a way to do it. I think its kinda similar in some places to the idea of backrooms, but before backrooms was a thing. Like, the whole concept of being alone in an infinitely large, ancient but modern structure with no clear purpose for which it exists, that sometimes feels like there should be people, and like there was someone there just mere days ago before you came there, but now they are gone.

  • @gusty7153
    @gusty71538 ай бұрын

    another thing about the backrooms is that it's freely open to anyone to make and share any sort of iteration of it. there is no "official" canon and in turn any drama related to a large project goes by without any real impact to the community at large.

  • @8kalbo724
    @8kalbo72411 ай бұрын

    i dont mind the monsters and stuff bc the original post says there might be something with u but i like how u are never sure if theres a mosnter or not i think thats what the modern backrooms stuff does bad

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    11 ай бұрын

    Exactly, it only suggests the existence of a monster and doesn't outright confirm it, which I think is better.

  • @8kalbo724

    @8kalbo724

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Cresendex yeah bro gives u that mysterious vibe not knowing whats next if theres just a monster chasing u around then it just gets ruined

  • @soupspoon6196
    @soupspoon619610 ай бұрын

    dude is one of the best narrators there is

  • @phase2darktrooper38
    @phase2darktrooper3811 ай бұрын

    this hits hard man

  • @noob_guardianhd3345
    @noob_guardianhd3345 Жыл бұрын

    Me reading the thumbnail: "The places without backrooms purpose"

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    Жыл бұрын

    As long as you enjoyed!

  • @noob_guardianhd3345

    @noob_guardianhd3345

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Cresendex ohoho I did!

  • @saeruji
    @saeruji6 ай бұрын

    14:10 I think the levels don't ruin the backrooms in any way. They make it better instead by adding more and more liminal spaces that have nothing to be afraid of, yet still scary. The entities do ruin it though.

  • @megustaelkiwi
    @megustaelkiwi11 ай бұрын

    I like the old and the new backrooms, they both have their charm :DD

  • @k1ngghidorah570
    @k1ngghidorah57011 ай бұрын

    when dude plays the background music for the video i get ptsd from everywhere at the end of time that shit messed me up lol

  • @marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938
    @marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938Ай бұрын

    The Universe itself is the ultimate back room…this idea of a series of back rooms almost feels like a search for an afterlife of some sort…who made the walls? The wallpaper? The carpet? Where does that much power come from to keep that many lights on? Far more than Earth can produce…a bizzare kind of purgatory or even hell…strange to be honest…but makes sense that a generation feeling disconnected and disenfranchised would come up with something like this…

  • @Dempsey1873
    @Dempsey187310 ай бұрын

    Never was into the levels idea the og room is perfect

  • @phase2darktrooper38
    @phase2darktrooper3811 ай бұрын

    it's like looking into the abyss where there's nothing but you feel like somethings their watching you but you know it's not their

  • @catthatisalock
    @catthatisalock11 ай бұрын

    Actually opposer vr feels like I’m in a liminal space sometimes.

  • @JameHopsIn
    @JameHopsIn11 ай бұрын

    This is exactly a masterpiece

  • @CUBETechie
    @CUBETechie11 ай бұрын

    The first 4chan post was realeased between 11 or 12 or 14 may 2019 18 May 2019 was the movie Vivarium released

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    11 ай бұрын

    I said May 12th, Was that a mistake, if so thanks for letting me know.

  • @CUBETechie

    @CUBETechie

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Cresendex i think it was posted on May 12 and reposts on 14

  • @Devowerer
    @Devowerer Жыл бұрын

    underrated!

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    Жыл бұрын

    Your channel is underrated as well.

  • @roogster
    @roogster10 ай бұрын

    7:15 ok but this one doesnt even look liminal to me it just looks like walking back to a hotel room 😭

  • @IreneSalmakis
    @IreneSalmakis5 ай бұрын

    My favorite takes on the backrooms are Lost in the Hyperverse and This is Frank.

  • @dontcallmeian8116
    @dontcallmeian811611 ай бұрын

    Bro just casually using a picture of my school as the second pic when he brings up school hallways 🗿 6:27

  • @RobertBrown21
    @RobertBrown2111 ай бұрын

    Please do a video about submechanophobia

  • @foxlyticalxd2562
    @foxlyticalxd256211 ай бұрын

    I swear someone explained that car metaphor in another video, but it was a boat instead.

  • @NewbieNoodle
    @NewbieNoodle11 ай бұрын

    Cool video but the song at 1:57 is called six forty seven

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    11 ай бұрын

    Glad you caught that, I usually copy-paste things and I guess this slipped through the cracks, thanks for letting me know.

  • @NewbieNoodle

    @NewbieNoodle

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Cresendex no problem man

  • @IntrovertedPerson3
    @IntrovertedPerson311 ай бұрын

    Singapore 🇸🇬!!!! I’m from Singapore!!!!!

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    11 ай бұрын

    Very cool! It's great to have international viewers.

  • @StarboyXL9
    @StarboyXL916 күн бұрын

    That post was made in 2019? Huh, weird. In my home dimension that post was made in 2015.

  • @itsvinilol
    @itsvinilol11 ай бұрын

    Brother your voice sounds like Matpat but if he woke up with a hangover, and piched down, But it's much better than his voice, yours is much more relaxing

  • @growlie2676
    @growlie267611 ай бұрын

    I would actually love the idea of exploring so, the Complex wouldn't scare me. I once played LSD Dream Emulator which is an exploration kind of game. So the Complex would be a fun do nothing game for me.

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    11 ай бұрын

    I'd agree since I also love exploring, but I really think you need to play the complex and see for yourself, it's very spooky. Also, I've heard of LSD Dream Emulator, decided to mention The Complex instead because more people could play it because it was free.

  • @growlie2676

    @growlie2676

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Cresendex How do you play the Complex?

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    11 ай бұрын

    @@growlie2676 It's completely free on Steam.

  • @thebuilder5271
    @thebuilder527111 ай бұрын

    Man, I looked up Marc Augè and he died just 5 days ago.

  • @suhaschittavajhula8427
    @suhaschittavajhula842711 ай бұрын

    how come you dont have more subscribers

  • @ImPaul56
    @ImPaul56 Жыл бұрын

    Nice, i noticed you used my video for 3 seconds, nice

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes! I loved your found footage version, glad you commented!

  • @ImPaul56

    @ImPaul56

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Cresendex Thanks!

  • @trolgeeeeee
    @trolgeeeeee10 ай бұрын

    This is what I see the backrooms as this place with no goal or sense of direction a place where purpose doesn't exist just a place where u exist a place where u wonder for ever no ending just endlessl wondering

  • @wafity
    @wafity6 ай бұрын

    I love the backrooms

  • @danthiel8623
    @danthiel86235 ай бұрын

    hmm interesting

  • @iMMishen
    @iMMishen Жыл бұрын

    Bro is indestructible

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    Жыл бұрын

    Can confirm

  • @PrinceVegetaTheFourth
    @PrinceVegetaTheFourth11 ай бұрын

    I like to think the entities built the backrooms. And what's out of the backrooms is a full world. But without buildings, without any trace of humanity, where dinosaurs still exist. But different dinosaurs. Monsters so incredibly terrifying the entities had to build one building big enough for all of them to live in. Because the outside is too terrifying, the outside has monsters and creatures so horrifying we can't even imagine. The backrooms are heaven and the "frontrooms" the outside place is hell. Its unfathomable pain and suffering full of demons. Its hell. I think that theory adds a meaning to the backrooms, the backrooms is a metaphor. Showing us what we consider heaven is really just walls and carpets. An office job is heaven for us, it gives us money, it gives us purpose. But the backrooms show us the truth behind that. Behind it, in the *back* hides the truth. Its an endless road that leads to nowhere. Its a waste of time.. wait.. but there is no time in the backrooms, maybe you just think its a waste of time but that's impossible since there is no time. How do you waste time here if time will always move the same? How do you waste time there if time does not exist? What even is time? Is it an invention? If it really was always there then why couldn't the backrooms always be there? Too many questions. Too many uncomforts. How about we just take a break, rest on those moisty carpets and sleep. After all.. Sleep isn't a waste of time.

  • @Tsuma_Vento
    @Tsuma_Vento10 ай бұрын

    What is the song at 14:21? Please...I need to know.

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    10 ай бұрын

    It's Just A Burning Memory - The Caretaker

  • @blumrich1970
    @blumrich197011 ай бұрын

    Anyone who was on 4Chan knows: "The Backrooms" dates back FAR longer - I saw it in 2009.

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    11 ай бұрын

    Really? Like the concept of it or just the name "The Backrooms" because if so I couldn't find anything before the original post.

  • @blumrich1970

    @blumrich1970

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Cresendex that is how 4chan works. That exact image, along with that exact text was posted multiple times to 4chan between 2009 and 1012 (which was when I stopped going there.) It was probably posted many more times between 1012 and 2019.

  • @onetruekeeper
    @onetruekeeper5 ай бұрын

    Sounds like life.

  • @RunningOnAutopilot
    @RunningOnAutopilot11 ай бұрын

    There are two types of the backrooms The infinite empty unsettling backrooms The filled with monsters and people and the hub backrooms

  • @ChinoWantan
    @ChinoWantan11 ай бұрын

    house of Leaves

  • @diaperbuster
    @diaperbuster11 ай бұрын

    Old McDonald’s give me this feeling

  • @OnehandedGamer-gv3eu
    @OnehandedGamer-gv3eu10 ай бұрын

    What if Kane IS the original 4chan poster?

  • @PelsckoPelesko

    @PelsckoPelesko

    8 ай бұрын

    Could be plausible. Because I find it weird that he just happened to stumble upon the archived 4chan post on an unfindable link unless linked in the bottom of the Reddit link or a pre-existing /x/ or backrooms video and not the wikis or hundreds of other videos like I and others did.

  • @PratosKS
    @PratosKS10 ай бұрын

    Basically, kids ruin everything.

  • @duckdaddy46
    @duckdaddy4611 ай бұрын

    Anyone know the name of the song at 11:30?

  • @magnifichades9710

    @magnifichades9710

    Ай бұрын

    I know it’s been 9 months but it is Glacier by Kane Parsons

  • @duckdaddy46

    @duckdaddy46

    Ай бұрын

    I’ve been waiting every day for this comment bro thank you

  • @wenternav33
    @wenternav3310 ай бұрын

    you kann not fall in to the ground in Minacraft every block has its own hitbox

  • @_end3rguy_
    @_end3rguy_11 ай бұрын

    those aint school hallways that looks like a hospital

  • @sheggy927
    @sheggy9277 күн бұрын

    w video

  • @turna1216
    @turna12169 ай бұрын

    The backrooms have more surface area than earth

  • @nhojnoyanob5504
    @nhojnoyanob550410 ай бұрын

    name of bgm on intro?

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    10 ай бұрын

    Undertale OST - Fallen Down

  • @katelee670
    @katelee67011 ай бұрын

    Can you imagine making them real..

  • @Cresendex

    @Cresendex

    11 ай бұрын

    That's the thing about them, you can't disprove The Backrooms existence.

  • @katelee670

    @katelee670

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Cresendex you know something it makes me wonder.. you hear reports of people coming up missing.. thousands of people are coming up missing.. the people that they did find keep telling wild stories about what happened to them.. no one believes them they get called crazy a conspiracy theorist then they get locked up.. end up in a mental institution.. Humm I've heard quite a few stories like that.. are the back rooms real.. does the government have hidden away.. LoL oOoOO ha ha ha.. how could they hide something that big.. underground cities how would they power it..

  • @awwman_2134
    @awwman_213411 ай бұрын

    not 2019 lol like 2007-8 or some

  • @wonkagaming8750
    @wonkagaming875011 ай бұрын

    whats the music name at 14:23

  • @MiloJenSopha

    @MiloJenSopha

    11 ай бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/qnV4taaaoNTUadI.html

  • @Tsuma_Vento

    @Tsuma_Vento

    10 ай бұрын

    Yes what is it?

  • @ishitatiwari6056

    @ishitatiwari6056

    Ай бұрын

    It's just a burning memory- The caretaker

  • @nouurrrrriieee
    @nouurrrrriieee10 ай бұрын

    bro sounds so cutie patootie

  • @_gray_wing_627
    @_gray_wing_62711 ай бұрын

    For the algorithm

  • @NotThatAverage
    @NotThatAverage11 ай бұрын

    Algorithm, oOoOO oOoOO oooooooœ

  • @Imboredwithmylife
    @Imboredwithmylife10 ай бұрын

    You sound uncomfortablely similar to matpat